Listening music on a PC

In this article I praise some of the best tools for hearing music on a PC:

• Quintessential player (aka Qcdplayer)
  http://www.quinnware.com/
  
  
• VUPlayer
  http://www.vuplayer.com/

The first has a better look, lots of functions, easy-to-use.
The second, by James Chapman, has a straight forward visual look, but also nice functions: I highlight the capability of fading between tracks, better play-lists (so called vpl, VUPlayer play list), and an easy to use local and remote / cached cddb database - text mode, which is great for browsing / grep.


Here's the look & feel of both...






Quintessential:

The same image (jpg):